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There's a weariness in their fourth LP, from the hint of cynicism in its title and the unfamiliar notes of sourness and doubt in new songs such as "I'm A Loser" and "Baby's In Black". Also there's much less new material, as if the strains were telling. One cover, "Mr Moonlight", is appalling, though there's a fierce "Rock And Roll Music" (John Lennon as Chuck Berry), a rollicking "Kansas City" (Paul McCartney as Little Richard),a melodious "Words Of Love" (by Buddy Holly) and a couple of rockabilly jaunts, like the amiable sing-along Ringo Starr number "Honey Don't" ("Rock on George Harrison, one time for me... Mmm hmm!") Paul McCartney's "I'll Follow The Sun" is wistful, but the album's masterpiece is "Eight Days A Week". Beatles For Sale, as things tunred out, was only a kind of hiatus. The first burst of the Beatles madness had turned their worlds upside down. In later music they would come to apply their new perspectives in the most extraordinary ways, taking pop to stranger places than it had ever dreamt existed.
I'm A Loser
Baby's In Black
Rock And Roll Music
I'll Follow The Sun
Mr Moonlight
Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey!
Eight Days A Week
Words Of Love
Honey Don't
Every Little Thing
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
What You're Doing
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby